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 1  II,  2 |       question, arising from the spherical shape of the world, how
 2  II,  4 |       the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most
 3  II,  4 |        circular movement must be spherical. The same then will be true
 4  II,  4 |     which is continuous with the spherical is spherical. The same again
 5  II,  4 | continuous with the spherical is spherical. The same again holds of
 6  II,  4 |         which are bounded by the spherical and in contact with it must
 7  II,  4 |      with it must be, as wholes, spherical; and the bodies below the
 8  II,  4 |          The sphere then will be spherical throughout; for every body
 9  II,  4 |   necessarily that the heaven is spherical. For if it is to be rectilinear
10  II,  4 |           it must necessarily be spherical.~Corroborative evidence
11  II,  4 |          the surface of water is spherical, and that which is continuous
12  II,  4 |  continuous with or embraces the spherical must itself be spherical,
13  II,  4 |         spherical must itself be spherical, then on these grounds also
14  II,  4 |       clear that the heavens are spherical. But the surface of water
15  II,  4 |   surface of water is seen to be spherical if we take as our starting-point
16  II,  4 |      surface of the water BEC is spherical.~It is plain from the foregoing
17  II,  4 |   foregoing that the universe is spherical. It is plain, further, that
18  II,  8 |       Again, since the stars are spherical, as our opponents assert
19  II,  8 |        construct them out of the spherical body, and since the spherical
20  II,  8 |    spherical body, and since the spherical body has two movements proper
21  II,  8 |         and every star should be spherical. For while of all shapes
22  II,  9 |    character.~That the stars are spherical and are not selfmoved, has
23  II,  11| reasonable view is that they are spherical. It has been shown that
24  II,  11|        shows us that the moon is spherical. For how else should the
25  II,  11|        the heavenly bodies being spherical, clearly the rest will be
26  II,  11|         clearly the rest will be spherical also.~
27  II,  13|          earth. Some think it is spherical, others that it is flat
28  II,  13|        whereas if the earth were spherical the line of section would
29  II,  13|     follow, even if the earth is spherical, so long as it retains its
30  II,  14|        shape must necessarily be spherical. For every portion of earth
31  II,  14|          i.e. the figure will be spherical. But neither will it in
32  II,  14|     argued, is at the centre and spherical in shape: if, then, a weight
33  II,  14|       clearly its generation was spherical; and if it is ungenerated
34  II,  14|     would have given it. But the spherical shape, necessitated by this
35  II,  14|        towards what is naturally spherical. Either then the earth is
36  II,  14|         Either then the earth is spherical or it is at least naturally
37  II,  14|         it is at least naturally spherical. And it is right to call
38  II,  14|      surface, which is therefore spherical. Again, our observations
39  II,  14|         that the earth’s mass is spherical in shape, but also that